This story appears in SLAM Issue 241. Published on January 20, 2023 at slamonline.com.
Caleb Love is not a fan of in-class presentations.
But two months into his junior year, Love’s distress for public speaking came to a head during a Climate Change presentation in November for his Public Policy course.
“I just feel like I’m being looked at, but I got through it,” he told SLAM over the phone from Chapel Hill later that afternoon.
Whether he’s become accustomed to it or not, from the classroom to the hardwood, all eyes will be on the North Carolina point guard this season.
Yet seven months ago, the St. Louis native was faced with one of the biggest decisions of his life while sitting with the sour taste left behind from their Championship loss to Kansas. It took a total of 20 days for Love to come to the decision that his story was still being written.
“Once we lost in the national championship, I went through that process of mainly just thinking about the loss and hurting about the loss,” Love said. “I just felt like talking to my parents and then talking to my mentors and guys that I look up to, everybody just felt like it was best for me to just come back and improve on what I need to improve on.” (READ THE FULL STORY HERE.)